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Talmud for Numbers 6:20

וְהֵנִיף֩ אוֹתָ֨ם הַכֹּהֵ֥ן ׀ תְּנוּפָה֮ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָה֒ קֹ֤דֶשׁ הוּא֙ לַכֹּהֵ֔ן עַ֚ל חֲזֵ֣ה הַתְּנוּפָ֔ה וְעַ֖ל שׁ֣וֹק הַתְּרוּמָ֑ה וְאַחַ֛ר יִשְׁתֶּ֥ה הַנָּזִ֖יר יָֽיִן׃

And the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD; this is holy for the priest, together with the breast of waving and the thigh of heaving; and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.

Jerusalem Talmud Nazir

MISHNAH: He cooked the well-being offering or scalded222Cf. Nedarim 6:1, Note 1. it. A Cohen takes the cooked fore-leg of the ram, one unleavened loaf from the basket, and one unleavened thin bread, places it on the nazir’s hands and waves it223Num. 6:19–20.. Afterwards the nazir is permitted to drink wine and to defile himself with the dead. Rebbi Simeon says, when one of the bloods was sprinkled, the nazir is permitted to drink wine and to defile himself with the dead224In v. 20, the note that the nazir is now permitted to drink wine is an appendix to the text which deals exclusively with the Cohen, not the nazir. Therefore, it remains unclear whether the nazir is permitted only after all ceremonies or after the start of the ceremonies, when one of the sacrifices was validated by having its blood sprinkled on the walls of the altar [Num. rabba 6(41)]..
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